The studio.
Lx8 Labs is a one-person studio with a long memory. Founded in Brazil in 2013 and moved to Berlin in 2020, it sits in the lineage of small research-and-engineering institutions that take the long route — the original Bell Labs, the early Xerox PARC, the kind of place that publishes papers and ships products from the same desk.
Engagements are fixed-scope and outcome-priced, never retainers. The studio publishes research in the open, builds tools to scratch its own itch — Tupã IDE, aimem — and brings in trusted specialists when a project asks for them.
It is intentionally small. It will stay that way.
The founder.
Thirteen years of DevOps consulting, now also building AI tools and writing physics. Carries the studio's institutional memory, takes the engagements, ships the products, signs the invoices. Lives in Berlin; came from Brazil.
Working with others.
When a project genuinely needs a hand we trust — Rust systems work, front-end deep-dives, ML infra at a scale beyond a single person — the studio brings in a vetted specialist for that engagement and pays them properly. Anyone we work with is a known quantity, not a marketplace hire.
Lx8 Labs is not currently hiring full-time. Open to fixed-scope subcontract work in Rust systems, front-end (Three.js / Solid / native), and ML/inference infra. Get in touch if that's you.